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What If the TV Was Off? Examining Counterfactual Reasoning Abilities of Multi-modal Language Models

Letian Zhang · Xiaotong Zhai · Zhongkai Zhao · Yongshuo Zong · Xin Wen · Bingchen Zhao

Arch 4A-E Poster #223
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Fri 21 Jun 10:30 a.m. PDT — noon PDT

Abstract:

Counterfactual reasoning, a fundamental aspect of human cognition, involves contemplating alternatives to established facts or past events, significantly enhancing our abilities in planning and decision-making. In light of the advancements in current multi-modal large language models, we explore their effectiveness in counterfactual reasoning. To facilitate this investigation, we introduce a novel dataset, C-VQA, specifically designed to examine the counterfactual reasoning capabilities of modern multi-modal large language models. This dataset is constructed by infusing original questions with counterfactual presuppositions, spanning various types such as numerical and boolean queries. It encompasses a mix of real and synthetic data, representing a wide range of difficulty levels. Our thorough evaluations of contemporary vision-language models using this dataset have revealed substantial performance drops, with some models showing up to a 40\% decrease, highlighting a significant gap between current models and human-like vision reasoning capabilities. We hope our dataset will serve as a vital benchmark for evaluating the counterfactual reasoning capabilities of models.Code and dataset are publicly available at https://bzhao.me/C-VQA/.

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